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Originally Posted by KuroiBara
I don't see how people can not realise they're pregnant for a full 9 months...
But yes, the thinking is understandable - stressed, unsure, confused, scared. But if that were me, I'd leave it at an orphanage or something, with a note explaining the situation so the baby doesn't grow up thinking it is hated. But that's me, I think things over a LOT. Some people don't get the chance to think before they panic I guess.
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I think that a lot of people underestimate the effects panic have on thinking processes.
One of the best examples given are people in a panicked situation being unable to remember the number for emergency services, even if it is referred to as that number... You will see reports of people panicking and "forgetting" the number for 911 in the US.
Another fairly common one is doing something that makes absolutely no sense in context, and that is actually the opposite of helping. For example, the huge accident where instead of calling for help, you start cleaning up your own blood or the like.
A large chunk of the brain basically shuts down in panic mode, so even if you knew you were pregnant and planned to leave the baby somewhere safe - there is a fair chance that you will panic and all that thinking will be thrown out the window if the birth happens unexpectedly.
This is even more true if you hadn't known you were pregnant to begin with.
Now, in regard to not knowing you were pregnant...
It isn't really that unthinkable.
A girl who already has very irregular periods likely won't think anything of her periods being irregular during pregnancy. (Because while the
periods stop, light bleeding every once in a while is they common while pregnant - basically looking the same as irregular and light periods would. Not to even mention the small percentage who actually continue their periods through pregnancy...)
A pregnancy that doesn't show all that much is likely to just be looked at as extra weight gain... And some pregnancies don't show much. It seems to be more common with athletic girls, so it isn't a weight thing. Girls who are involved in athletics tend to have slimmer hips and flatter chests... So when they get pregnant, the hips spread and the chest fills out. Instead of getting a big baby ball, they get a more feminine body shape. It is VERY easy for a girl to mistake this for normal body changes.
Add this to younger girls finding the whole idea of getting pregnant completely unthinkable, and it is a lot easier to come to the conclusion that she is finally "filling out" and that she might want to go on a diet sometime soon than thinking that there is a baby in there. I mean, it isn't just the girls that don't notice - their friends and family also don't know.
Having no clue, then suddenly having a baby pop out is definitely complete terror and panic territory. I don't think that most of these girls really want to throw the baby away as much as they want to hide it, run, and forget the whole traumatic experience... And the trash bin is conveniently there in front of them.